University of Orange

Root Shock Reading Group
2023-01-16 18:30 - 19:30 (America/New_York) | Online
UofOrange is hosting this 4 week free online reading group of Mindy Fullilove’s “Root Shock”. Join us each week on Mondays from January 16th to February 6th at 6:30PM EST.
Register online HERE
Root Shock examines 3 different U.S. cities to unmask the crippling results of decades-old disinvestment in communities of color and the urban renewal practices that ultimately destroyed these neighborhoods for the advantage of developers and the elite.
Like a sequel to the prescient warnings of urbanist Jane Jacobs, Dr. Mindy Thompson Fullilove reveals the disturbing effects of decades of insensitive urban renewal projects on communities of color. For those whose homes and neighborhoods were bulldozed, the urban modernization projects that swept America starting in 1949 were nothing short of an assault. Vibrant city blocks – places rich in culture – were torn apart by freeways and other invasive development, devastating the lives of poor residents.
Fullilove passionately describes the profound traumatic stress- the “root shock”that results when a neighborhood is demolished. She estimates that federal and state urban renewal programs, spearheaded by business and real estate interests, destroyed 1,600 African American districts in cities across the United States. But urban renewal didn’t just disrupt black communities: it ruined their economic health and social cohesion, stripping displaced residents of their sense of place as well. It also left big gashes in the centers of cities that are only now slowly being repaired.
Focusing on the Hill District of Pittsburgh, the Central Ward in Newark, and the small Virginia city of Roanoke, Dr. Fullilove argues powerfully against policies of displacement. Understanding the damage caused by root shock is crucial to coping with its human toll and helping cities become whole.
Buy a copy here: https://nyupress.org/9781613320198/root-shock/

December Solidarity Potluck
2022-12-14 17:30 - 19:30 | 35 Cleveland St, 35 Cleveland Street, City of Orange, NJ, 07050, United States
Join us for our monthly solidarity potluck. Organized by UofO and the HUUB, they are an opportunity to gather, share food, and get to know one another. We are still meeting outdoors to keep our community safe from Covid. We’ll keep warm around a firepit.

Listening to Marx with the Ear of Our Hearts
2022-12-05 18:30 - 19:30, 2022-11-28 18:30 - 19:30, 2022-11-21 18:30 - 19:30, 2022-11-14 18:30 - 19:30, 2022-11-07 18:30 - 19:30, 2022-10-31 18:30 - 19:30, 2022-10-24 18:30 - 19:30, 2022-10-17 18:30 - 19:30 and 2 more dates | NJ
Join UofO, Edgar Rivera Colon, and Robert Sember for a 10-week course on Marx’s Capital.

“Is there wisdom in Marx that can help us address what troubles us today? This ten-session mini-course will allow us to hear Marx’s words in our own voices while connecting to our life stories as neighbors, family members, organizers, workers, artists, creators and educators. Each session will focus on key extracts from chapters in Marx’s Capital, Volume 1. No preparation or prior study of reading Capital is required. Just a desire to listen with intention, learn, and participate in dialogue. The goal of our mini-course is to have you tune into Marx using your life experiences and knowledges as a path into critical social analysis and community-building. This is NOT an exhaustive reading of Capital. Rather, it is an invitation to knowing and understanding a text that has guided social justice movements across the world since it was published in 1867.”
Edgar Rivera Colón, PhD, a medical anthropologist, teaches courses on health justice and the history of racism in medicine at the University of Southern California’s Keck School of Medicine’s Narrative Medicine program. Dr. Rivera Colón is also faculty at Columbia University’s Narrative Medicine program where he trains students in qualitative research methods. With his Columbia colleagues, he co-authored the award-winning textbook, The Principles and Practice of Narrative Medicine (Oxford University Press). Recently, Patrick Hebert and he published “Slow Burn, Humid Pitch: Cultivating Care While Livin’ La COVIDa Loca” in NACLA Report on the Americas. His forthcoming book project is Love Comes in Knots: Meditations in the American Labyrinth. He hosts a podcast about politics and spirituality called Karl Marx Ate My Field Notes. He is also member of the People’s CDC.
Robert Sember is an educator and administrator with the Alabama Prison Arts and Education Program (APAEP) at Auburn University, Alabama. He is a member of APAEP’s Higher Education in Prison team, which offers college courses in prisons in Alabama. Robert is also a member of the international sound-art collective, Ultra-red, which helped establish Vogue’ology, an initiative by and for members of the African-American and Latino/a Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender community in New York City. Robert is a devoted UoO comrade, having taught a JanTerm course and participated in workshops and reading groups. He was a co-chair of the organizing committee of the 400 Years of Inequality initiative.

Remembering Rosa, Remembering Robeson
2022-12-02 18:30 - 20:30 | 33 Cleveland Street, Orange, NJ 07050, 33 Cleveland Street, Orange, NJ, 07050, United States
Join us TONIGHT, Friday December 2nd, at 7PM for Remembering Rosa, Remembering Robeson.

You can view the livestream in two places. Either on the University of Orange YOUTUBE page or the University of Orange FACEBOOK page.

We will also be live and in-person at Central Elementary Auditorium (33 Cleveland St, Orange, NJ). We ask that in-person attendees consider wearing a mask and taking a rapid test before coming, to keep our communities safe from Covid-19.
PROGRAM:
Remembering Rosa, Remembering RobesonDecember 2nd, 2022Central Elementary Auditorium, Orange NJ
Sem Etienne performs Lift Every Voice
Mindy Fullilove speaks about Robeson in Orange
Superintendent Fitzhugh makes remarks
Ronald Campbell sings in ode to Paul Robeson
Khemani Gibson reads Paul Robeson’s speech to the National Negro Labor Council
Rosa Parks Community School Dance Performance led by Ms. Knox
UofO HonDoc Honorees- Virgilio Aran & Rosanna Rodriguez
Ebenezer Baptist Church sings, led by Winston Nelson Sr & Saalim McLean
UofO HonDoc Honorees– Gloria Stewart & Sem Etienne
Orange High School & Ebenezer Baptist Church Choirs sing “I need you to survive”
Remembering Rosa: A Concert for Peace is an annual University of Orange event in collaboration with Ebenezer Baptist Church and the Orange Public Schools. Remembering Rosa is organized by Tisa Singleton, Winston Nelson Sr., Douglas Farrand, and Mariel Johnson. Thanks to Yardbird Entertainment, Barry Devone, Jonathan Clerie, Jacqui Castañeda, Aubrey Murdock, Greg Bufford, Rocketship and Print, and all the performers, UofO set up crew, and volunteers who have contributed to this year’s event.
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University of Orange, Ebenezer Baptist Church, and Orange Public Schools present:
Remembering Rosa, Remembering Robeson
A Concert for Peace
December 2nd 2022 7:00PM, doors at 6:30 Central Auditorium, Rosa Parks Community School, Orange NJ FREE COMMUNITY CONCERT featuring performances by student groups, church choirs, and musicians from Orange NJ CONCIERTO COMUNITARIO GRATIS Presentando interpretaciones por grupos de estudiantes, coros de iglesia, y músicos de Orange, NJ KONSÈ KOMINOTE POUR GRATIS Pral gen yon pefomans espesyal pa yon gwoup elev, koral legliz, e mizisyen ki soti nan Orange, NJ “Through my singing and acting and speaking, I want to make freedom ring. Maybe I can touch people’s hearts better than I can their minds, with the common struggle of the common people.” — Paul Robeson “A través de mi canto, actuación y habla, quiero hacer sonar la libertad. Tal vez pueda tocar los corazones de las personas mejor que sus mentes, con la lucha común de la gente común.” — Paul Robeson “Atravè chante, pèfòmans, ak diskou mwen, mwen vle libète reye. Petèt mwen ka touche kè moun pi byen ke lespri yo, avèk yon eprèv ke n pataje ak moun komen”. — Paul Robeson This year’s 7th annual Remembering Rosa is titled “Remembering Rosa, Remembering Robeson.” Our theme this year focuses on Paul Robeson. Through story and song we will remember NJ’s native son – a renaissance man whose life work explored the relationship between music, solidarity, and freedom – and who spent time with civil rights organizers in Orange in the late 1950s. La séptima edición anual de Remembering Rosa de este año se titula “Remembering Rosa, Remembering Robeson”. Nuestro tema de este año se centra en Paul Robeson. A través de la historia y la canción, recordaremos al hijo nativo de NJ, un hombre del renacimiento cuyo trabajo de vida exploró la relación entre la música, la solidaridad y la libertad, y que pasó un tiempo con los organizadores de los derechos civiles en Orange a finales de la década de 1950. Ane sa se 7èm ane N ap Komemore Rosa ki rele komemorasyon Rosa, komemorasyon Robeson. Tèm nou pou ane sa chita sou Paul Robeson. Atravè istwa ak mizik, n ap sonje pitit natif NJ- yon gason renesans ke travay li te eksplore relasyon ki genyen ant mizik, solidarite, ak libète- e li te pase tan ak òganizatè dwa sivik yo nan Oranj nan fen lane 1950 yo. We strongly recommend wearing a face mask and taking a Covid-19 rapid test before attending. Recomendamos ampliamente usar una máscara facial y hacerse una prueba rápida de Covid-19 antes de asistir.

What's the story? An autumn memoir writing class
2022-11-18 11:00 - 12:00, 2022-11-11 11:00 - 12:00, 2022-11-04 11:00 - 12:00, 2022-10-28 11:00 - 12:00, 2022-10-21 11:00 - 12:00, 2022-10-14 11:00 - 12:00, 2022-10-07 11:00 - 12:00, 2022-09-30 11:00 - 12:00 and 2 more dates | NJ
10-week virtual memoir class offered by UofO, taught by developmental editor Susan Hasho

What’s the Story? A Memoir writing class
Do you have some stories you’d like to tell? There may be stories about your life that you want to tell your children or grandchildren, perhaps about another country or culture you came from or your parents came from. Was there an experience that changed your life or your neighborhood? How about if you were in the military and you want to share something about that? If you have a desire to share or describe anything that you are fascinated by, care about or even want to change, this class is a place to do that.
What’s the Story is a 10-week writing class that intends to provoke, free and guide anyone to write a memoir that reflects their own unique voice and life experience. There will be interaction with everyone in the class, homework, time for each person to talk about their writing or their questions about what they would like to write as well as feedback from the teacher. Anyone who chooses may read their writing at a designated time period during the class.
Susan Hasho is a developmental editor which is an editor involved in the mysterious process of enabling writers and anyone interested in writing to find their way through the maze of expectations, judgement and even fear to find the true heart of what they want to write. She has trained and worked as an actor and writer, and moved into the advertising field to work as a copy editor for advertising agencies and Fortune 500 companies. She began working with writers several years ago as an editor and it became her goal to teach a writing class that would enable people to be as free of self-criticism and inhibiting expectations as possible in order to write clearly and openly with joy.

Old Woman and the City Book Launch
2022-10-18 18:00 - 19:30 | Online
The University of Orange is proud to announce the release of Old Woman and the City, the latest book from our Bridgebuilder Press.

Please join us Tuesday, October 18th, at 6PM on ZOOM to celebrate author Ann Burack-Weiss and our Maggie Ink Project.

Register here to get the link!

October Community Potluck
2022-10-12 17:30 - 19:30 | 35 Cleveland St, 35 Cleveland Street, City of Orange, NJ, 07050, United States
Join HUUB, UofO, and First UU of Essex County for our monthly community potluck. October 12th 5:30PM – 7:30PM at 35 Cleveland Street, Orange, NJ 07050.

Bring a dish, bring a friend!

Tropical Nights in Orange / Noches Tropical en Orange
2022-09-17 18:00 - 21:00 | 35 Cleveland St, 35 Cleveland Street, City of Orange, NJ, 07050, United States
Excited to announce a late summer outdoor Music City concert at The HUUB on September 17th. Cumbia music by Viva Vallenato Cumbia , plena and salsa by D’Plena, and food from Antojito’s Genesis on South Essex Ave.
Free concert – 35 Cleveland Street , Orange NJ- 6-9pm
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Emocionado de anunciar un concierto de Music City al aire libre a finales de verano en The HUUB el 17 de septiembre. Música cumbia de Viva Vallenato Cumbia, plena y salsa de D’Plena, y comida de Antojito’s Genesis en South Essex Ave.
Concierto gratuito – 35 Cleveland Street, Orange NJ- 6-9pm

September Community Potluck
2022-09-14 17:30 - 19:30 | The HUUB, inc, 35 Cleveland Street, City of Orange, NJ, 07050, United States
Join HUUB and UofO and First UU for monthly community potluck and a family game night.

Bring a friend, bring a dish! This month’s potluck organized by Ernest Lindsay and the Healthy Orange Coalition.

What's the story? A memoir writing class
2022-05-20 11:00 - 12:00, 2022-05-13 11:00 - 12:00 | NJ
10-week virtual memoir class offered by UofO, taught by developmental editor Susan Hasho
